thegardendude 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸

https://regenerate.social/@thegardendude

Husband, #dog dad to two goofball #Frenchies; #bi, #DemSocialist. Passionate about #gardening and wildlife/habitat restoration. Guitar and travel are my secondary interests and hobbies.

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Location: Richmond, Virginia (US)
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Blog: https://medium.com/@firmlyplanted

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2026-05-17 01:28:13 UTC

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Banana muffins topped with a little cinnamon and sugar!

2026-03-23 19:57:17 UTC

Comment if you can smell this picture 😌 (Viburnum x Mohawk) #plants #flowers
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2026-03-06 03:12:26 UTC

It’s such a shame that our native Yellowwood tree (Cladrastis kentuckea) isn’t more widely planted in #Virginia. White wisteria-like flowers dangle down from the branches, gorgeous yellow/gold fall color rivaling that of Ginko trees, and tolerant of drought, salt spray, and alkaline soils. https://trees.umn.edu/yellowwood-cladrastis-kentukea #trees

2026-02-28 00:54:41 UTC

Aucuba japonica 'Gold Dust' #plants
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2026-02-04 21:07:53 UTC

Made the mistake of using price comparison websites to find somewhat affordable car insurance and now my phone is blowing up with calls and texts and emails 😭
Word to the wise: check each insurer individually or use a broker

2025-12-25 15:06:42 UTC

Happy holidays, however you celebrate or whatever you celebrate! And if like me you're not feeling like celebrating anything, that's perfectly legit too and quite understandable. My DMs are open if you need someone to chat with. You're not alone, and whatever you're going through, it will pass. 🫂

2025-12-06 01:51:20 UTC

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Visited the High Line back in March of 2024 and loved it! Really want to go back when everything is awake and flowering

2025-11-20 20:44:04 UTC

First seed catalog has come in the mail this afternoon! Seed Savers Exchange! Southern Exposure Seed will show up sometime mid-December. I no longer do business with Rare Seeds as their founding family has supported homophobic and transphobic political candidates in the recent past. Plenty of great alternatives though. I've bought from Territorial and Seeds of Change as well. #gardening

2025-11-11 02:30:10 UTC

Got an email from the company I buy CBD oil from, saying that the proposed budget bill contains language that bans products that contain more than 0.4% #hemp, which would essentially ban 95% hemp CBD products across the country. If you rely on #CBD and/or THC to manage your anxiety, might want to call your Senator and ask them to support Rand Paul’s amendment that removes that language from the bill.

2025-10-22 22:23:23 UTC

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So jealous! Makes me miss our annual trips to Phoenix and the morning hikes in the surrounding hills

2025-10-20 02:27:13 UTC

We really can’t have nice things, can we? Just learned Andrea Bocceli went to the White House and gave Trump a free mini-concert.
*Exasperated sigh while I delete his music from my library*

2025-10-17 01:17:50 UTC

I interact with a lot of landscapers during the day at work and it seems a lot of them are either not very knowledgeable themselves about plants, or aren’t educating their clients about options and limitations. I keep having to explain that a plant doesn’t grow to say five feet and then just stop. Some pruning/trimming will eventually be necessary if you care about limiting the size of a plant.
I always end up referring folks to dwarf conifers like Slowmound mugo pine or something similar if limiting size is a concern.

2025-09-26 13:06:13 UTC

How to save and store your sweet potato tubers for next year #gardening https://www.epicgardening.com/save-sweet-potato-vine-tubers/

2025-09-21 18:28:17 UTC

Supposedly the rapture is going to happen on Tuesday or Wednesday.
Sounds good to me. With the crazies gone, we can restore Roe V. Wade, set up universal healthcare, ban guns, restore investments in clean energy, and the LGBTQIA community will finally have respite from discrimination and harassment.

2025-09-21 02:09:47 UTC

Spent the morning at the @npub1hnx…ntuj botanical garden fall plant sale; so encouraging to see so many vendors selling not just natives, but a lot of lesser-known and under-appreciated natives like boneset, swamp sunflower, golden ragwort, and whorled loosestrife. Would be great if the big box stores would get on board with promoting natives...

2025-09-16 01:11:07 UTC

It’s disconcerting how disconnected from nature so many people are; it’s evident when folks come to the nursery and want plants that fit a very tight, precise template that they have in mind: “It needs to get no bigger than 4 feet, I don’t want to do any pruning.” Or wanting something with a very specific foliage color that’s so far removed from what you’d find in nature. We’ve become to accustomed to suburban landscaping: it’s not just lawns, it’s also the neat rows of tightly trimmed Japanese hollies bookended by narrow, tightly shaved arborvitae. It’s too manicured, too neat, too forced into a cookie cutter.

2025-09-07 01:43:29 UTC

In Virginia, horticulturalists hope to revive the American chestnut tree to its former glory https://youtu.be/DbrY-J0bpto

2025-09-01 14:53:19 UTC

Five ways to prepare your soil for bulbs this fall #gardening https://www.epicgardening.com/prepare-ground-for-bulbs/

2025-08-31 18:37:02 UTC

Sundays are truly the best day to be on #Mastodon. I can’t get over the quality photos people are sharing from their gardens, parks, countryside, forests, rocks, moss, lakes, mountains, etc.

2025-08-23 00:04:56 UTC

Drove down to Norfolk today with the hopes of visiting Norfolk Botanical Gardens but the entrance fee was $20, which given some big expenses lately felt steep, so unfortunately I felt compelled to pivot to something else. So I made lemonade out of lemons and enjoyed a nice afternoon at the beach for a few hours.
But it did get me thinking that gardens should be accessible to as many people as possible, regardless of income. I feel like we could find ways to fund gardens so entrance fees aren't necessary.

2025-08-21 18:19:21 UTC

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I tried growing corn one year and drought hit right as the plants were starting to form ears, and they never developed. After that, I decided I needed to get a drip irrigation system set up and hooked up to a timer

2025-08-05 02:01:11 UTC

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I see plenty of posts about current events/news, politics, hobbies, music, and pop culture but posts about sports (baseball in particular) are VERY few and far between. It seems like that crowd never left X

2025-07-31 22:25:38 UTC

Second Mortgage Lifter #tomato of the season, and with no blossom end rot! 🥳 #gardening
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2025-07-28 23:48:43 UTC

The way my mood is going to improve immensely come late fall and winter, let me tell you! This soupy airmass makes me not want to do a damn thing.

2025-07-12 16:14:10 UTC

Me, making plans for yard work over the weekend:
“I’ll cut the grass, then weed whack around the house and the shed, clean up the over-grown area and…."
Me, after the reality of dew points in the upper 70s is felt after just mowing: “On second thought, that’s good enough for today.” 🥵

2025-07-09 23:47:16 UTC

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You’ve always got something tasty to show off, love it! I wonder if I could find currant sauce at a specialty grocery store?

2025-07-08 03:22:22 UTC

You know what sounds really good right now? Staying a few weeks in a fire lookout tower in the mountains. The solitude would not phase me one bit.
I mean, sure, you give up some luxuries but that would be a tradeoff I’d be willing to make for some mental de-compression.

2025-07-06 19:57:31 UTC

Bee balm (Monarda spp.) blooming! #Bloomscrolling #flowers
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2025-07-05 13:32:31 UTC

Pruning tomato plants beyond simply removing the suckers…yea or nay? My yellow pear tomato plant is getting a bit unwieldy even with a cage over it. I also feel like removing some branches might produce better (though a bit less) #tomatoes? On the other hand, I know open wounds are a temptation for disease. Hmmm…. #gardening

2025-07-04 17:23:13 UTC

Anyone have a recommendation for a watering can (that can be ordered online) that has a nozzle that reliably produces a gentle shower that’s evenly distributed? Thinking I might try a metal can this time. All the plastic one’s I’ve gone through have ended up pouring very unevenly. #gardening

2025-06-30 23:43:23 UTC

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That looks sooo good! Might need to do something like that with the blackberries growing by our front door, the bush is really pushing a lot of fruit this year

2025-06-23 23:39:09 UTC

Decided to delete my BlueSky account. People there are just super into droning their anxieties and doom-posting. It’s become a super negative space where no one takes a break from politics to take care of their own mental health. This place, on the other hand, is full of people happily touching grass on a regular basis and it shows in all the delightful posts about hobbies and such! Good on ya, Mastodon!

2025-06-19 22:55:29 UTC

I feel this #mentalhealth #nature
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2025-06-15 21:34:38 UTC

Lately my wife has been doing some gardening of her own and planting annuals around the front porch and back deck! She’s going a great job, lots of great color! #flowers #BloomScrolling
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2025-06-14 21:24:38 UTC

We have a motto here in Virginia….”Sic semper tyrannis!” Or, “thus always to tyrants.”
You can also modify Boromir’s quote from Fellowship of the Ring: “America has no king, America needs no king."
#NoKings
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2025-06-14 19:25:24 UTC

A few favorite shots from a stroll around J.C. Raulston Arboretum this morning! #gardens #flowers
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2025-06-10 00:02:56 UTC

Hydrangea quercifolia Snowflake #flowers #Bloomscrolling
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2025-06-07 13:09:50 UTC

Deeply concerned about cuts to NOAA (among so many other things) and the immediate danger to public safety this will cause, as we reverse course on addressing climate change 🤬 It feels like this regime has opened so many lines of battle that people are feeling overwhelmed and paralyzed as to where to even start. I hope I’m wrong, but that’s certainly how I’ve felt at times.

2025-05-25 12:46:51 UTC

A mix of colors in my mom’s garden! #SilentSunday #Flowers #BloomScrolling
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2025-05-11 00:54:13 UTC

Anyone growing Thai basil? If so, what do you use it for? #herbs #gardening

2025-05-08 03:28:40 UTC

Found this little fella while weeding loriope this morning at the nursery 🐸 #frog #wildlife
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2025-04-06 02:08:26 UTC

Due to longstanding issues with images not loading (or only partially loading) on my current instance, I’m going to be switching to a different server soon, so if you get a new follow request from me, it’s from my new account as I get re-situated. Thanks!

2025-03-29 18:27:20 UTC

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Always enjoy your posts about Summer….dogs are the best!

2025-03-21 23:39:58 UTC

Big shipment of azaleas dropped at the nursery this week! #spring #flowers #BloomScrolling
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2025-03-16 19:59:38 UTC

Just a reminder that if you're wanting to contact your Senator or Representative, their staff prioritize communication this way:
1. In-person meetings
2. Snail mail
3. Email
4. Website form submissions
Basically the more work it takes to reach them, the higher up the priority chain you are. Just an FYI. Maybe repost/boost this so those unaware of this can be more effective in their communication? Thanks! #USPol #SaveDemocracy

2025-03-13 16:42:31 UTC

Spring has sprung at the nursery!
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2025-03-04 00:18:25 UTC

Came across this old “greenhouse bus” at work today while pulling orders….how fun must this have been for young kids learning about plants and gardening? 🧑‍🌾
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2025-03-02 18:19:18 UTC

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I won't be using Firefox anymore. LibreWolf is completely separate from them and they seem to be much more committed to user data privacy than Mozilla is.

2025-03-02 18:07:28 UTC

#Firefox removing a statement from their terms of service saying they'll never sell your data is pretty disconcerting, so I'm switching to #LibreWolf (a browser with Firefox underpinnings but much more dedicated to user privacy, lots of great features built in to stop data collection). https://librewolf.net

2025-03-02 15:13:25 UTC

I've seen a major increase in the number of people wanting to be more food-independent....fruit trees and shrubs are selling like hot cakes at the nursery. People having them tagged practically as they come off the truck. Makes sense though with impending tariffs and inflation. We need to do more though for the #pollinators that give us those fruits....they're still declining from pesticide use and loss of habitat. Yes, plant natives but also attend your local zoning board/planning commission meetings and remind them to keep wildlife in mind when making land use decisions!

2025-02-20 19:27:41 UTC

Debating whether to order some more fruit trees for this year...the peach tree is still going but the fruit rotted while ripening, two of the apple trees succumbed to some kind of root rot or something. Thinking I might just stick to what's native in my area...blueberries, elderberry, pawpaws. Except the figs seem pretty unbothered by pests or diseases. #gardening #GrowYourOwn

2025-02-11 23:50:59 UTC

Starting to sour on BlueSky. The engagement/interaction there (at least in my experience) is so much less than here on Mastodon. And the lack of interaction really takes away from the enjoyment of it. Also, the doom posting is WAY worse over there 😬

2025-02-10 03:20:57 UTC

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Yeah, a big problem is that the definition of "native" seems to very quite a bit in terms of geography and how far back in time different sources are looking to consider something to have been indigenous to an area. I'll check out that websites though!

2025-02-09 22:58:47 UTC

I was today years old when I found out that Echinacea purpurea is actually NOT native to Virginia, and now I'm feeling like I need to go back and double check everything else I thought was native to Virginia and/or the Mid-Atlantic...

2025-02-09 18:45:22 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-02-02 04:31:52 UTC

A few tips for growing better strawberries #gardening https://youtube.com/shorts/J1AZwJPLur8?si=Bw-LhfRh8InKHm41

2025-01-29 16:12:21 UTC

Visitors flock to New York botanic garden for a whiff of a flower that smells like a rotting corpse
https://apnews.com/article/new-york-corpse-flower-brooklyn-f7f6efd71e8d1d07d7bb810335060996

2025-01-26 18:15:53 UTC

I might've gone to a local garden center and brought home a Monstera and a spider plant to round out our increasingly-tropical dining room....🤪

2025-01-25 16:47:11 UTC

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This was spurred in part by legislation signed into law last year that requires nurseries and garden centers to display signage next to plants known to be invasive, warning customers as such. The legislation came about as a result of pressure from conservation groups and the general public. Contacting your legislators works!

2025-01-25 15:44:54 UTC

Found out yesterday that the nursery I work at is going to stop selling even more invasive plants (discontinued Barberry and Burning Bush last year); next year, no more Mahonia, Nandina domestica, and I'm hoping Miscanthus will also be dropped. Instead we'll be increasing our stock of natives...adding Sourwood this year and native Styrax (Silverbell)

2025-01-21 03:08:36 UTC

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Don't know if it was ever available in Canada but there was a show on here in the U.S. called Pushing Daisies that was quite funny and light-hearted

2025-01-19 20:46:06 UTC

Going to be interesting to see how my fig bushes make it through record cold temperatures this week. The variety I have is called Olympian and originates in the PNW but this kind of cold is unheard of even there, I think (8-10ºF for several nights). Last few years they budded back out from both the crown and previous years' growth

2025-01-18 02:08:04 UTC

Boss told me today that because of the severe cold coming next week (9ºF mornings!!) that we won't be working Monday to Thursday. I'm going to go stir crazy, I've already been home a lot the last three and a half weeks between the holidays and snow days. Also not really keen on dipping into PTO so early in the year

2025-01-12 01:50:29 UTC

Here's the recipe for the chickpea sun dried tomato soup https://theurbenlife.com/2024/12/26/marry-me-chickpeas/

2025-01-12 00:50:10 UTC

Tonight’s #dinner: sun dried tomato and chickpea soup with garlic, spinach, vegetable broth, red pepper flakes, salt and oregano! Quick and easy! #cooking #soup
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2025-01-06 01:08:22 UTC

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What I wouldn't give for a hedge of these! Lovely!

2025-01-01 14:26:10 UTC

Hope everyone had a lovely New Years Eve! Anyone have resolutions for 2025? Mine are pretty simple:
1. Keep on top of weeding the garden so it doesn't become a nightmare later
2. If I bring a plant home, plant it (or pot up) within three days.
3. Actually remember to fertilize the indoor houseplants, lol
#gardening

2024-12-28 01:20:26 UTC

I hope #Costco is rewarded many times over for standing by their DEI initiative with a surge in new memberships. People should be as good at thanking companies when they do the right thing, as they are at calling out companies when they fail to do so.

2024-12-27 01:51:36 UTC

Santa bring any good #gardening goodies for anyone this Christmas?
I didn't really need much except seeds (which I already bought) but I did get a Lowes gift card. Which will be handy since I seem to always be wearing out my gloves between work and gardening at home, lol!

2024-12-20 23:07:13 UTC

Really disappointed that the Democrats voted against care for trans people in the #NDAA bill. I get that the bill had good things in it, but at a time when trans people are under attack, you don't vote for something that denies them the services and care they need.
This is not helping with enthusiasm for Democrats.
God I wish we could have a true leftist party in this country and not this milquetoast center-left nonsense

2024-12-14 21:13:55 UTC

I've been reading "Bringing Nature Home" by Doug Tallamy and the early chapters are quite difficult to get through...he minces no words about the alarming rates of habitat loss occurring from unrestrained commercial and residential development, paving of roads/highways and parking lots, and vast expanses of sterile lawn. It got me thinking....we can't rely just on getting the right people elected (as we've just seen this November). It's going to take having conversations with people much closer to us...friends, family, neighbors, co-workers....to affect the most widespread and immediate change we need to see (i.e. "Maybe we don't need to be using Round-Up...there are plants that act as natural repellants, attracting good bugs that eat the bad ones"). But it's also clear we need to connect the dots for people, since so many have the blinders of self-interest on. How will habitat loss affect them, and if not them, then their kids and grandkids?

2024-12-13 21:58:25 UTC

Turns out our black plastic kitchenware was safe after all https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/black-plastic

2024-12-09 20:54:04 UTC

Yearly reminder that Nandina domestica is invasive in the Mid-Atlantic and southeast. Consider winterberry holly as a native alternative #plants #PlantNatives
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2024-12-08 22:14:54 UTC

Bumblebees increase by more than 100x in remarkable Scotland rewilding project, from 35 bees to over 4,000 #GoodNews #PositiveNews https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/bumblebees-increase-by-more-than-100x-in-remarkable-scotland-rewilding-project-from-35-bees-to-over-4000/

2024-12-03 23:06:22 UTC

Just a bit frosty this morning (low 20s! 🥶 ) #winter #nature
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2024-11-30 23:47:01 UTC

Since we're going to be growing more vegetables and herbs this year, I really need to get my act together as far as #compost goes. I'm not handy enough (in my opinion) to build a structure for a compost pile, so I was thinking of getting a tumbler composter. Thoughts, #gardening Mastodon?

2024-11-26 23:55:27 UTC

Wife and I are compiling a list of what we want to grow next year and I have two questions for #gardening Mastodon:
Can celery successfully be grown in zone 7, and can regular onions be grown in raised beds or large containers?

2024-11-23 23:00:09 UTC

Seed Savers Exchange catalog arrived today...going to try to grow some things this summer beyond herbs on the back deck. Wife wants to do honeynut squash so we'll save some seeds from a few she picked up at the store. Probably will do various greens again since those always do well, probably eggplant too. Would love to grow some melons if space allows. #gardening

2024-11-08 17:03:02 UTC

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon falls to lowest level in nearly a decade https://apnews.com/article/brazil-amazon-deforestation-lula-wildfires-4a8e25c3dee73ccd942677c192cf3e42

2024-11-07 14:37:04 UTC

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What is that fluffy white stuff? Haven't seen anything like that in Virginia in many years now. Snow, I think it was called? 🤔😁

2024-11-07 14:14:49 UTC

What went right: the week in good news (round-up of positive developments around the world) https://www.positive.news/society/good-news-stories-from-week-44-of-2024/

2024-11-06 03:23:57 UTC

One of the cooler things I saw while in Idaho was a "grove" of quaking aspens (in really, all these are just one tree, which grew sprouts that became clones of the parent). I had only heard about aspens before, so cool to see them up close! #trees
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2024-11-05 23:19:54 UTC

Pro tip for election results tonight, if you're choosing to keep up with all that in real time. Use @npub19rt…adh9 as your browser...you can set tabs to periodically reload automatically (1, 2, 5, 10, 15, and 30 minutes as choices). #USElection #USPol

2024-11-04 01:00:28 UTC

If you are anywhere within driving distance of the arboretum at the University of Idaho, you MUST pay a visit and take your time strolling the grounds.
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2024-10-30 01:54:06 UTC

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The trip? That's not until this weekend. I was talking about the state of discourse online this week

2024-10-29 22:19:51 UTC

So many people are indulging their worst anxieties and doom posting that I can’t practically keep muting and adding words to exclude from my feed. So…. I’ll be taking a few days off from social media 😮‍💨

2024-10-28 23:04:27 UTC

15 best alternatives to #Amazon https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/alternatives-to-amazon

2024-10-25 21:47:15 UTC

I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell you that a billionaire white man in a position to make such decisions would squash a Washington Post endorsement of Harris/Walz. Someone who would have to actually pay some taxes under a Harris administration. Horrors!

2024-10-20 19:01:46 UTC

Morning dew #SilentSunday
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2024-10-17 21:11:07 UTC

Global water cycle out of balance for first time in history...“We can no longer count on freshwater availability for our collective future,” the report stated. https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4939575-global-water-cycle-imbalance-report/?utm_source=press.coop

2024-10-15 00:25:10 UTC

CBD from hemp kills mosquitos, inflicting 100% mortality rate on pesticide-resistant insects https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/cbd-from-hemp-kills-mosquitoes-inflicting-100-mortality-rate-on-pesticide-resistant-insects/

2024-10-06 16:09:31 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2024-10-02 23:10:42 UTC

Delightful #sunrise greeting me this morning at the farm 😍
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2024-09-29 12:00:40 UTC

Update: walking back to the parking garage from the concert last night and I came across several trees with the ground around them completely littered with dead lanternflies. It honestly looked like leaves at first, and then I thought it was mess from fruits that had dropped, and then....oh. Oh no. It was so disgusting. There were also still live lanternflies hanging on the trunks and branches.
I'm really amazed they haven't made their way into the Richmond area, so far the furthest south I've seen them is northern/northwest VA.

2024-09-22 21:45:52 UTC

The farmers abandoning Big Ag to grow mushrooms and herbs https://reasonstobecheerful.world/farmers-quitting-factory-farming-transfarmation/

2024-09-16 19:57:59 UTC

Today I learned that marshmallows actually came from the marshmallow plant originally, which was used to treat sore throats
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2024-09-15 21:15:26 UTC

Found these #caterpillars on my azaleas, munching on leaves. Will they do major harm or just eat some leaves and then become moths?
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2024-09-12 03:25:38 UTC

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I just don't understand why it's relevant. Isn't how I treat other people what really matters...character, personal integrity? How does me painting my nails harm other people? It doesn't, lol.

2024-09-12 02:28:16 UTC

Welp...my mom found out I've been painting my nails, and really, really disapproves of it. And implores me to reconsider.
"That's very feminine. You're a man. God made you a man."
Funny, I don't seem to recall pushback against men wearing face powder and wigs in the 1700s. Nor do I find anywhere in Scripture a prohibition against men painting their nails or wearing earrings, or anything of the sort.
And honestly, more men could stand to be more feminine.

2024-09-09 02:08:55 UTC

Rose of Sharon bloom in my Mom's garden #SilentSunday
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